Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , by way of change , let us move from drama to humour . |
| 2 | ‘ Let us ask from beginning to end , from contention to resolution , and advance no plea or reservation of our own . |
| 3 | As one House of Representatives committee chairman told the Eisenhower administration in 1953 : ‘ do n't expect us to start from scratch on what you people want . |
| 4 | At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol . |
| 5 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 6 | The Dutch government is offering farmers subsidies to persuade them to switch from dairy to energy farming . |
| 7 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 8 | ‘ Jim has been patching players up to keep them going from week to week . |
| 9 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes — but not to see her lolloping from room to room any more — ‘ . |
| 11 | Almost got him disbarred from entry to the Navy . |
| 12 | A short tag of tape on the top line of your long-net tells you top from bottom in the dark . |
| 13 | It is a mild puzzle at first , to come across the young river Adour flowing from south to north down its valley , when you last saw it flowing from east to west into the ocean at Bayonne . |
| 14 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 15 | Did you shrink from marriage with me , indeed , dear ghost ? |
| 16 | Do you pause from time to time to thank God for the hundred and one tiny joys that make up each day ? |
| 17 | what about we , and if I , if one of her suppliers I asked them , if I said well okay , if we feature your outfit here , how much lead time you ne , do you need from order to production ? |
| 18 | The Supreme Court of New South Wales on Aug. 21 cleared the former Premier of the state , Nick Greiner , of the corruption allegations which had forced him to resign from office in June 1992 [ see p. 38965 ] . |
| 19 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 20 | For another , many of the genes carried by plasmids — such as those specifying resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin or penicillin — are flanked by special DNA which enables them to jump from plasmid to chromosome and back , or from one plasmid to another . |
| 21 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
| 22 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 23 | What is the nature of demand for health care and does it differ from demand for other services ? |
| 24 | Or have we moved from minor to major ? |
| 25 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |